Good morning! Thank you so much for all of the nice notes about my back. I'm definitely feeling better this morning. I did end up going to the doctor, which was a good idea. I guess my file still said I taught preschool, so the doctor was a bit concerned about bending and lifting. When I told him that I now write from home, he said, "you'll be able to be pretty creative while taking this stuff!" and wrote me a prescription for muscle relaxers.All they do is make me fall asleep, so I don't think you're in for any amazing creativity.

Hope you're feeling better! Just wanted to say that if your back still hurts without the pills, you might want to ask for a referral to a physical therapist. They can actually diagnose and fix the problem if you did real damage, most doctors don't know ten percent about back pain that PT's do. (my husband is a PT) =) Good luck!

Is the peanut butter the no-stir kind or the natural kind? With sugar or no?

I'm a natural, stir kind person, but am always hesitant to make recipes with it because I don't want it to end up an oily mess.

Sounds yummy, but my jeans are too tight at the moment, thanks to those stupid Hershey's peanut butter kisses, so this one will have to wait. I'm making your 16 bean soup today. I won't feel guilty about that.

Ohhhhhhh girl. Me and a bowl of peanut butter fondue are soul mates. We have chemistry. Destiny. Kismet. Nirvana. Just without all that messy Kurt Cobain stuff. Cuz nobody wants to smell like teen spirit when dipping celery into peanut butter fondue.

I love all your recipes too! You could try accupuncture also - it doesn't hurt. When I threw out my back I could barely walk, I wore what clothes I could reach from the bed to shuffle to my appt. By that evening I was able to walk and sit, where sitting was impossible prior to that.

Just stumbled across your blog - LOVE IT! I, too, have a (probably unhealthy) close relationship with my crock pot.

I sure hope you continue to write after your 365 days. I made your fagioli recipe last night, and I was made to promise that I would include it into our regular rotation of meals. I'm excited to try some more of your recipes!

I checked your blog this morning and had just enough time to whip together the peanut butter fondue.It heated while the boys and I did our chores.We brought it to a Play-day for our homeschool group. I served the fondue with apple slices (from our own apple tree), marshmallows, cinnamon and regular graham crackers.Several friends in attendance are gluten free so we just made sure that the fondue was spooned onto plates and not dipped into. Everyone loved it!

Personally, however, I would use 1/2 c. cream and 6 marshmallows for your recipe, Steph.

Oh, and I used a small crock (1.5 qt. I think) so I doubled the recipe and it cooked well. I think I could have even tripled the recipe and it would have fit.

Your blog is all over the place! I visit so many blogs and they all have you on their blog list! Well, I've visited a few times but I'm subscribing. Can't wait to learn more than the 2 recipes I have for my crockpot-chili and roast, lol.

We're allergic to peanuts and dairy, so I modified and made with Sunbutter (made with sunflower seeds) and soy milk. Also, we were out of apples, due to the tub of caramel dip I bought on impulse. We dipped bananas and celery sticks. Yum!

While it was cooking, the kids busied themselves making marshmallow snowmen and slicing the bananas.

Steph, I saw in your picture that you used fat free half and half. It sounds like it worked OK, no weird breaking apart or anything? I tried to make a sauce recently with fat free half and half and it got all clumpy and gross. It didn't do that for you?

Great recipe, I made at work today and it was a hit - served with apple slices and chocolate animal crackers. Instead of cream or half & half, I used French Vanilla coffee creamer and skipped the vanilla extract. This recipe is a keeper!

This looks awesome! I am curious though it is showing up under gluten free recipes? I am just asking because I forwarded this site to a friend eating gluten free and I didn't think this could be correct.

Ah Steph, another recipe i'm thrilled with! Only problem...it's 9:30 pm and I still have a buzz from the fondue, lol. I also used fat free half & half and had no problems with it. I also used Brown SugarTwin and it still came out great (but doesn't explain the fondue buzz). We used celery, apples and mini pretzels as dippers and my (super picky) son tried a bite of celery (just a bite, but i'll take what i can get).

I forgot to come back here and say THANK YOU for this awesome recipe! I made it the day after you posted it, since I had all the ingredients on hand. I used chocolate marshmallows instead of regular, which turned out wonderfully. All three of my sisters came over that night, and we literally stood around my kitchen island dipping tart apple slices into this dip and talking. :)

I'm not sure what the consistency was when you made it, but mine turned out pretty thick. What leftovers I had and put in the refrigerator...I can eat it as fudge too! LOL Maybe I added too much peanut butter...but that's okay, I LOVE this both ways. I also added a handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips, though I don't think it really changed the taste all that much.